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Ir is due to the Boarp or TRUSTEES, whose favourable consideration 
of the following Address induced them to believe that it might subserve 
the interests of the College, by some degree of publicity beyond that of 
the Chapel in which it was pronounced, that the reason of its delay should 
be briefly noticed. Their resolution contemplated the publication, in con- 
nexion with the Address, of certain matter to be embraced in the Appendix, 
as illustrating the condition and prospects of the Institution. Several topics, 
enly adverted to in the original papers, (the substance of which is now em- 
bodied in the pages of the Appendix,) it appeared to the writer needed to 
be somewhat expanded, and this depended upon facts in connexion with 
the erection of the new College edifice, and other important measures 
not until recently developed. 

The manuscript of the Address has been in readiness for publication 
- since the time of its delivery, and it was the writer’s design to submit it 
without the slightest alteration. On re-reading it, however, since the 
close of the term, and recollecting the haste in which it had been written, 
amidst the frequent interruptions of pressing College duty, he could not 
resist the impression, that if printed verbatim, as it was pronounced, (though 
it might as a mere pamphlet have but a very limited circulation,) it would 
do dis-service to the College, instead of benefiting it. He has therefore 
felt at liberty, with this candid statement, to submit it, imperfect as it still 
is, with some few alterations, 

The attention of the reader is particularly invited to the Appendix, 


Bristol College, July 26, 1834. es 


ADDRESS. 


Tue occasion on which we are assembled demands heart- 
felt gratitude to God, while the position which we occupy 
as an infant institution suggests the lesson of modesty. It 
behoves us to remember, while we consecrate these halls to 
religion and science, that they,are yet young in sacred and 
classic associations. Those great controlling influences 
which lift themselves into the upper firmanent of thought, 
and, like the polar light, are always visible, are yet to be 
collected here. The prospects before us are indeed full of 
cheering promise and hope; but our work is only begun. 
We stand upon the threshold, and lest the vista which opens 
before us, should borrow its light and shade from fancy, we 
do well to remind ourselves that in every plan of extensive 
and permanent usefulness, certain elements of substantial and 
efficient moral power are brought into requisition : benevolent 
motive, inspiring and warming and enlarging the heart ; 
sound speculative wisdom and intellig gent forecast and en- 
terprise, in the conception of the plan; prompt executive 
efficiency, and eendy and unshaken purpose, in the accom- 
plishment of it. 3 

‘Without benevolent motive, a given plan may be fraught 
with superlative mischief. Without sound speculative wis- 


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dom and intelligent forecast and enterprise, it may rival the 
splendour and the permanency of the ice palace of the Rus- 
sian empress, who ° 


did hew the floods, 
And make her marble of the glassy wave,— 


——_-———— a scene 
Of evanescent glory, once a stream, 
And soon to glide into a stream again. 


Without executive promptness and efficiency, a machinery 
conceived and arranged with the most consummate skill may 
be suffered to go into utter derangement. Without firm- 
ness and steadiness of purpose, what is skilfully begun, and 
wisely and efficiently sustained for a time, may close its me- 
lancholy history in a catastrophe of ruin. 

The leading topic to which attention is invited on this 
occasion is: THe STANDARD OF AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP AND 
ENTERPRISE IN THE 19TH CENTURY. 

It has been said, with great classical. beauty and truth, 
that << every vista in the ample domain of science should 
lead to a temple dedicated to the benefit of man.”’ This age 
of novel speculation has not been quite barren of those 
minds, whose innate ultraism persists in the perversion of 
simple and native truth, and the severe maxims of human 
prudence. The passion of such minds is, to hold every 
thing in the focal point of illumination till it blazes and 
burns. The forcible sentiment which has just been quoted 
has often undergone this process, till in the view of many 
it is shrivelled down to the idea of merely meréenary 
and common-place utility. There is a large and compre- 
hensive sense in which we would inscribe the word utzlety 
upon every classic arch, and upon every swelling dome of 
science, but it is essentially the same in which we would 
hear it echoed in the sublimest strains of poetry and the pro- 
foundest inductions of philosophy. There is a high and 


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truly practical sense in which we would bend to it an ear of 
attention in the laboratory and the cabinet of science, in the 
college-garden and campus and workshop, but it is the same 
in which we would listen to it'from the Principia of Newton, 
. the Novum Organon of Bacon, the Analogy of Butler, the 
Mechanique Celeste of Laplace. Itis the same in which we 
would open our souls to its inspiration all along the fields of 
enlarged thought, and cultivated feeling, and refined taste. 
The age is gr owing sick of the diluted schemes of education, 
which have been palmed upon it under the charm of mere 
utility. They are rapidly floating, and let them float— 


Ad locum umbrarum, nocti, somnisque, sopore. 


The standard of scholarship demanded by the age and 
country in which we live, is at once elevated, thorough and 
practical. Here, in this new world, if the great mass of pub- 
lic sentiment is to be purified—if the tide of j ignorance and 
infidelity and crime is to be stayed—if human nature is to as- 
sume its renovated forms,—while a sound and intelligent re- 
gard must be paid to what is truly useful,—the flame of culti- 
vated intellect must be permitted to rise and mingle with the 
source of all mental light and beauty. Here, in this new 
world, if the storms which are even now gathering black- 
ness are to be beaten back—if the menacing thunders which 
are ready to break over the citadel of our free institutions, 
are to be hushed—if, as the ages of coming time roll on, the 
nations of the earth are to be permitted to gaze upon us, as 
exhibiting the sublime spectacle of a great and happy and 
united and educated people, whose God is the Lord: ;—the 
standard of Christian scholarship, and the standard of Chris- 
tian enterprise must be rendered as pure, as elevated, and as 
thoroughly and truly practical, as the highest capabilities of 
the human mind and heart, sanctified by religion, and aided 


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by the brightest age that has yet blessed the Church and the 
world, can make it. 

The country in which the lines of our heritage have fallen 
to us, is young. Its intellectual resources are yet to be de- 
veloped, and directed to the great ends of human existence. 
In the lapse of a few years, more than one hundred millions 
of minds in this country will demand the guardianship and 
the blessings of education and religion. What provision for 
the intellectual and moral sustenance of such an amazing po- 
pulation can be made ? Who are the elect spirits on whom 
will devolve the responsibilities of this great work ? Where 
are we to look for adequate enlargement of thought, and ex- 
pansiveness of philanthropy? Where are we to search for 
men of deep mental sagacity and power, affluent in the stores 
of human and divine knowledge, masterly in reasoning, sim- 
ple and sublime in eloquence,—men of high-souled Christian 
enterprise, “ valiant and prudent in matters,’? who can take 
their stand on great principles, and look abroad over these 
thronging millions, and with a lofty magnanimity of sacrifice 
and disinterestedness, devote themselves to the work of their 
intellectual and moralrenovation? This is the style of Chris- 
tian enterprise demanded by the age and country in which 
we live ; and there must go along with it, the commanding, 
moral power of those attainments in science and letters, 
which belong only to profound and acknowledged erudition, 
when in connexion with ‘¢sound wisdom and discretion.” 

Let it not be supposed that a ‘‘ limited number of eminent 
scholars, such as were seen at Athens and Alexandria, and 
in London, in the days of Anne; or even a multitude of 
learned men in the abstract sciences, such as may now be 
seen in Paris, and many of the German cities,”’ would, even 
in connexion with a much higher standard of philanthropic 
enterprise than has ever been exhibited by any body of 


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merely learned men, meet the exigencies of this age and 
country. We wantscholarship adapted to the age and coun- 
try, deeply imbued with the spirit of Christian enterprise. 
We want minds trained to vigourous and active habits, and’ 
to patient and thorough investigation, enriched by all learn- 


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of God. We want men who have so studied the ornacLEs oF 


and sanctified by the renovating and transforming grace 


TRUTH in connexion with human science and letters, as to 
have had every energy roused and tasked under the impulse 
of Christian duty,—every power disciplined under the in- 
fluence of holy motive. We want educated minds, which 
have been so trained as to feel and know their own re- 
sources, and to recognize the paramount obligation of using 
them in the service of God, and their fellow men. We 
_ want men who have so girded on their intellectual panoply, 
as to move forward like the war-horse on the eve of battle. 
The field of action in this new world is» large, the motives 
to high achievement powerful. ) 

In determining the measure of responsibility and duty 
which devolves upon us, it behoves us to study with the 
deepest sagacity and with the most enlarged benevolence, 
the actual circumstances in which Providence has placed 
us, and the means which he has put in our power for bless- 
ing the world with a thoroughly Christian literature, and 
imparting to the scholarship and enterprise of the present 
and of coming ages, a fresh and undying vigour. We are 
apt to overlook the influence of circumstances, in the 
history, both of nations and individuals. And yet, who 
does not know that they are the hinges of our destiny, under 
the Providence of God? We are apt to undervalue the 
moral efficiency of the means, which, as individuals and 
as nations we may possess, for benefiting the world. Sel- 


fishness and timidity on the one hand, and a want. of enlarged 
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and fearless Christian zeal on the other, have left thousands 
of highly accomplished minds to while away existence in 
indolent inaction, or in laborious trifling, instead of em- 
ploying the means which they possessed, for the promotion 
of the happiness of their fellow-men. Nations have squan- 
dered in uses the most puerile, resources of moral power, 
which, if husbanded and employed aright, might have 
erected and perpetuated to the latest generation, monuments 
of wisdom and beneficence. Christianized Rome might 
have created an era far richer and brighter than her Augus- 
tan age. Christianized Rome might have built upon the 
wreck of her Pagan institutions, and her Pagan literature, 
a monument of intellectual power, around whose altar, taste 
and genius and piety would have worshipped throughout 
all time. Greece, disenthralled by the power of Chris- 
tianity, and brought under the influence of just views 
of her circumstances and responsibilities, might have lived 
to weave in undying song, her enterprises and achievements 
in the cause of universal philanthropy—might have im- 
parted to her philosophy and her dialectics, a principle of 
undecaying vigour and beauty—might have sent forth the 
influence of a pure and dignified Christian literature, to be 
felt and cherished and perpetuated, wherever there is a human 
mind to think, or a heart to feel. 

The states of modern Europe have possessed, and some 
of them still possess means, which, if employed under a 
just and intelligent sense of Christian duty and responsibi- 
lity, might make the world feel and acknowledge and honour 
the power of sanctified intellect, tasked in the service of hu- 
manity and of God. The literary institutions of modern 
Europe, if adapted to the age, and thoroughly pervaded by 
the influence of religion, might send out a hallowed, influ- 
ence to cheer and bless the millions of her wretched pea- 


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santry,—to elevate to the proper dignity of christianized 
man, the thousands whose rank secures to them the pri- 
vilege of degrading humanity ‘to the tame and groveling 
pursuits of pleasure—and the thousands more whose avarice 
binds them to the narrow and selfish interests of secular gain. 
The literary institutions of modern Europe, with their gar- 
nered treasures of mind, their scholars, © 


“ Who have ranged the broadest circles intellect hath run,” 


their old and time-honoured foundations, possess means, 
which, if in a high sense consecrated to God in the ser- 
vice of humanity, might regenerate the old world, and 
pour the light of an illustrious example of faith and duty 
upon the new. 

- But it becomes us rather to study our own circumstances, 
and guage our own resources. Our existing and rising Col- 
leges have an immeasurable responsibility devolved upon 
them, in reference to the standard of scholarship and enter- 
prise demanded by this age and country. It has been said 
with truth, that these institutions are, by the Providence 
of God, placed ‘‘in the very centre and focus of those 
means which are to renovate the world.”” Some of our 
older Colleges and Universities, were brought into existence 
during that early period of the history of this country, when 
the souls of men were on fire with the spirit of heroic 
achievement. They have grown with the growth, and 
strengthened with the strength of a great nation. They have 
witnessed the peopling of a new world. 

Commencing their career of usefulness in the fresh and 
invigorating atmosphere peculiar to the first age of the Ame- 
rican colonial history, and under the direction of scholars and 
divines, who were the lights of science, and the angels of the 
Churches in this western hemisphere, they produced a style 
of scholarship, and a habit of practical and efficient action in 


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their alumni, admirably adapted to the exigences and wants 
of the population. 

The undergraduate course of the first Colleges and Uni- 
versities of this country embraced:a range of scientific and 
literary studies which has been, and still is, a matter of as- 
tonishment to the superficial among us. This course was so 
deeply imbued with Christian teaching, and so thoroughly 
pursued, that it could not, and did not, fail to produce men of 
strong nerve, of rare and ripe attainments, and of almost 
apostolic self-denial and enterprise, in promoting the great 
interests of religion and civil liberty. 

One of the first scholars and divines of that period, speak- 
ing of the earliest of these institutions, (founded in 16388, ) and 
which has since graduated nearly siz thousand alumni, says, 
‘<¢the ends for which our fathers did chiefly erect it were, that 
so scholars might there be educated for the service of Christ 
in the work of the ministry, and that they might be seasoned 
in their tender years with such principles as brought their 
blessed progenitors to this wilderness.’’ 

We owe it. chiefly to the judicious position taken by our 
first Colleges and Universities, in reference to their standard 
of Christian scholarship* and enterprise, that so much was 
done, and well done, in laying the foundations of our free 
and happy institutions ; that, in combining and controlling 
the elements of intellectual and moral greatness in the in- 
fancy of this nation, so much was achieved for the honour 
of religion and humanity. ‘The great men who occupied the 


* What would the students of our day think of being called, during the Junior and 
Sophomore years, as the classes of these first Colleges were, a century and an half 
ago, to translate in the chapel, at morning and evening prayers, from Hebrew into 
Greek from the Old Testament, and from English into Greek from the New? What 
would our candidates for the first degree think, of subjecting themselves to a rigid 
and critical examination for three weeks, by such men as John Cotton, whose fa- 
miliarity with the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, enabled him to converse and conduct 
his examinations with the utmost fluency in those languages ? 


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ehairs of those Colleges well understood the circumstances 

in which they acted; they understood, moreover, the pro- 
positions : KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: HOLINESS IS POWER: KNOW- 
LEDGE AND HOLINESS COMBINED ARE MIGHTY THROUGH Gop. 

They saw and felt that they were employed ina great work, 

and their students saw and felt it too. Colleges rising up 
amidst the wilderness of a new continent, under the religious 
teaching and the intellectual drilling of such men as Dunster, 
and Locke, of Chauncey and Johnson, of Holyoke and 
Cutler, of Dagget and Cooper, of Edwards and W ither- 
spoon, and Smith, and’ Blair, and Leaverett, and Oakes;— 
Colleges, under the auspices of such minds, founded in the 
prayers, and cherished by the beneficence of thousands on 
both sides of the Atlantic, who could see ‘far off,” and who 
felt it an honour to live for coming generations: Colleges 
thus constituted, and nursed, and built up, could not fail to 
exercise a controlling influence over all the great interests con- 
nected with the destinies of this country. It is a feature of 
deep interest in the history of those memorable times, and 
those early literary institutions, that such a style of religious 
teaching was adopted as inculcated and enforced the pure doc- 
trines of the Gospel from the beginning to the end of the course 
of liberal education, and urged upon every student, wnder 
the solemn sanctions of religious duty, the responsibilities of 
educated mind to the world, to the Church, and to God. 

This, let it be observed, is a circumstance which accounts 
for the fact that such numbers of the first graduates of Har- 
vard, and Yale, and Nassau Hall, and William and Mary, 

were men who exemplified in real life, so much that adorns 
and ennobles and dignilies humanity. They were scholars 
whose attainments would do honour to any age, whose vigour- 
ous and practical habits of thinking and acting, whose fearless 
intrepidity in daring and doing what became them as edu- 


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cated and Christian men, placed by Providence in peculiar 
circumstances, and possessed of rare facilities for usefulness, 
read to us a lesson which, if understood aright, will afford 
us important aid in determining the measure of our duties. 
We do well to remember how education was begun in this 
country. It is profitable to remember the well-directed en- 
terprise, the sound discretion, the piety, the deep and in- 
telligent forecast, the largeness of heart, the untiring perse- 
verance of our forefathers, who, in laying the foundations of 
those institutions, and adapting their course of studies and 
discipline to the circumstances of that period and to the ages 
following, have left us an unspeakably valuable and in- 
structive legacy of wisdom and benevolence. 

How may we, in the light of their example, so seize upon 
the features of the present and coming ages, as at once to 
come up to the measure of our responsibility, especially in the 
establishment and endowment of the new Colleges which 
are to aid in supplying the wants of the yearly increasing 
millions of our population? The existing Colleges send out 
from their halls annually more than one thousand liberally edu- 
cated young men, to fill the high places of influence, to give 
tone to public morals, to elevate the standard of national enter- 
prise, to enlarge the boundaries of thought:—These, and such 
as may be trained in our new Colleges, cannot but be viewed 
as combining in themselves a moral power which, if well- 
directed, will produce stupendous results in the future his- 
tory, not of this country only, but of the world. In solving 
the problem of duty in reference especially to our new lite- 
rary institutions, we must not for a moment forget, that as a 
nation we are yet young. It isa mistake, and one which 
chills the warm life-blood of that enterprise which is peculiar 
to our actual circumstances, that we are mature—that we 
have ‘already attained.”” What is a century and an half of 


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feeble colonial history, during which the germ of political 
liberty was unfolding itself, and the elements of a newly 
constituted society coalescing ? What is scarcely more than 
half a century of independent national existence in the de- 
velopment of the resources of a country like ours, unrivalled 
under the whole heaven in its means of swelling the tide of 
human improvement and human happiness? There should 
be no mistake here. Weare, asa nation, passing through the 
period of early youth. We ought to concert our enterprises 
of usefulness, and go steadily forward in the accomplishment 
of them, with the unshaken conviction that we have still to 
do with foundations, and that the glory of laying the top- 
stone of the edifices we are rearing on the soil, wet by the 
tears and consecrated by the prayers of the Pirermms, is re- 
served for millennial times and millennial spirits. Living 
within the walls, or in the near vicinity of our great cities, 
and perhaps failing to observe with what characteristic en- 
terprise they are extending, on every side, the industry and 
wealth of their teeming population, we are apt to forget that 
we are placed, by the providence of God, in circumstances, 
with reference to our present and future history, which 
impose upon us not so much the duty of reformers, as that 
of patient and faithful labourers in the fields now open to us, 
and of projectors of new enterprises, which, for centuries 
upon centuries to come, may, with the growth of this 
mighty nation, accumulate power to bless its thronging 
millions, and impart new and more efficient impulses to the 
onward movements of civil liberty and science, and religion 
in both hemispheres. 

I hold it to be obvious, unclassical as it may appear to 
some delicate and timid spirits, that in this youthful country, 
the 19th century, and especially the first half of it, through 
which we are now passing, is a period singled out, by the 


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providence of God, as an era of hallowed enterprise, an era 
of high, laborious, and self-sacrificing effort. 

What, in founding a new College at this important and 
interesting crisis of our country’s history, with the light of 
all the past before us, and the stirring motives of the pre- 
sent to inspire us, and the bright horoscope of the future to 
animate and cheer us, is the measure of our duty ?>—I do 
not ask how we may humour the sickly and mawkish taste 
of the age, by attempting to dilute our literature, and by 
training our students to feeble and desultory habits of thought, 
because such habits may seem to be, for the time, in fashion. 
I do not inquire how we may so organize this institution, as 
to make ample provision for the labour-saving machines of 
intellect, which have come into popular use during the last 
few years. 

The great principles of solid education, founded in true 
philosophy, and corroborated by all experience, must be re- 
tained. We ought, indeed, so far to hold in abeyance every 
prejudice in regard to what is new, as to allow it a just and 
intelligent estimate. It should not, however, be forgotten, 
that there are grave and serious difficulties in doing this at a 
period in which ‘‘ the love of innovation is vastly an over- 
match for a blind regard to authority and antiquity.” We 
have need of the most exemplary caution, lest, in detaching 
ourselves from what is absurd and erroneous in. former 
opinions, we may abandon the true with the false, and admit 
features and principles which have no other recommendation 
than novelty. We have also, to guard on the one hand, against 
that mercenary version of utility in education which would 
turn every thing into dollars and cents; and on the other, 
against that effeminate sentimentalism which so often ener- 
vates the intellect, and paralyzes the usefulness of our most 
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Our hearts cannot but dilate with swelling emotions of 
gratitude to God, in view of the auspicious circumstances 
under which this Institution opens its halls as a College. 
The peculiar advantages which it enjoys, of a healthful and 
vigorous organization, in regard to intellectual, physical 
and religious culture, it is believed, cannot fail to commend 
it to practical men, to the Church, to Christian parents, to 
men of sound learning and pure patriotism every where. 
Its course of studies is eminently Chijstian. and classical— 
severely and thoroughly scientific. As to the fidelity and 
success with which instruction is imparted, it may, and does 
challenge the most faithful scrutiny. We anticipate, indeed, 
that it may be said by some who mean well, and by others 
who have sinister motives, that this College is young. I 
bless God that it is so; ¢hat is in keeping with the spirit 
of the age, and the circumstances under which we are to 
earn for it a place in the affections and prayers and liberal. 
beneficence of those, who love and honour the ways of 
Christian well-doing, and the achievements of Christian en- 
terprise. Besides, it is well known, and extensively admit- 
ted, and is beginning deeply to be felt, that that species of 
enterprise which is so essential to success in active life, and. 
which is so important in a thoroughly liberal and ayailable 
education, is imparted in a tenfold measure to the students of 
a young and rising College. They breathe the very spirit 
which brought it into -being, as a blessing to the world.— 
They feel in their inmost souls the thrilling power of those’ 
motives which inspired the founders of the Institution, whose 
walls are rising, and whose classic shades are extending and 
deepening, whose library and cabinet and laboratory are 
yearly becoming enriched for their sakes, and for thousands 
and thousands more, who will with them honour the earliest 
years of their Alma Mater, as in some respects among the 

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most memorable of her career of usefulness. Students of 
the first graduating classes of such an institution become fa- 
miliar with the means by which the moral elements of a 
great enterprise are combined and directed, with the signal 
instances of divine favour toward it, —the manner in which 
prejudice and hostility are disarmed ;—they learn to guage 
the power of opposition—to see how it elicits and nerves 
the energies of good men to higher and steadier and nobler 
effort;—they see how powerless even the shafts of slander 
and calumny become, when directed against the shield of 
such a cause. They cherish an esprit de corps which is 
seldom or never found in such integrity and disinterested 
fervour elsewhere,—they are in general more deeply and 
faithfully studious, and when the standard of scholarship is 
high, and the range of classical and scientific studies extensive 
and judicious, and the religious spirit fervent, they gradu- 
ate, not only with rare and valuable attainments, but with 
large and solemn views of Christian’ obligation, and with 
‘such a measure of that moral magnanimity which enters into 
the conception and accomplishment of plans of practical and 
enduring usefulness, as leads them to undertake and achieve 
what, to feebler spirits, would seem at least of dubious issue, 
if not utterly beyond the range of possibility. 

Witness the first alumni of Harvard and Yale, of Dart- 
mouth and Williams, of Union and Bowdoin, of Middlebury 
and Brown, of Columbia and Rutgers, of Jefferson, of Wash- 
ington, of Amuersr.—Let not the emphasis with which I 
utter the last, subtract one tithe from what is due to the 
scholarship and enterprise of the first classes of other in- 
stitutions. I feel the stirrings of an honest pride and an un- 
dissembled gratitude, at the mention of a college whose in- 
fancy was cradled amidst the songs and battle-shout of Zion, 
whose first lispings were the prayers of faith. I feel, in the 


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tremulous motions of my inmost soul, the inspirations of 
that cheering watch-word—onwarp! I see the answer of 
that prayer of faith in the accomplished scholarship of Max- 
well, and Leavitt, and Edwards. Isee itin the practical ef- 
ficiency of those first graduates of Amherst, who are to be 
found in the van of all the important movements of Christian 
beneficence. I witness it in the pastoral fidelity and the 
fervid eloquence of her sons throughout the New England 
Churches ; in the success of those who have entered and who 
honour, the secular professions throughout the country; in 
the rich and blessed triumphs of the cross, which have been 
won by those who, as pioneers and heralds of salvation, 
have spread themselves through the great Valley of the 
West. I witness it in the burning missionary zeal of Bridge- 
man, and Perkins, and Tinker, and Chapin, and Jones, and 
Riggs, and Lyman;—the record of whose enterprise and self- 
denial, and of whose fitness for the work assigned them, 
will be embodied in the history of redeemed nations. The 
Nestorians of Persia will record it with that of Martyn ; it 
will be read in the trophies won for the Son of God from 
among the millions of China and of Hindoostan, with that 
of Morrison, and Buchanan, and Ward ; it will havea bright 
and enduring record in the annals of evangelized and reno- 
-vated Greece with that of King, and Robertson, and Hill; 
it will be proclaimed, while *¢ distant nations catch the flying 
joy,” from the Christianized islands of the Northern Pacific, 
in connexion with the cherished and honoured names of 
Richards and Thurston.—The institution to whose first 
graduates!I have stoppedfor a moment, to pay this spontaneous 
tribute of affection and honour, is now, in the mantling 
freshness and vigour of its youthful enterprise, sending out 
classes of sexty or seventy annually, to fill the great trusts 
of society at home, and to herald the gospel of the blessed 


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God to the remotest districts of paganism. That institution 
struggled four years for its corporate seal in the Legislature 
of one of the most enlighted and College-nursing States of 
the Union; built the walls of its first College edifice with the 
mites of a hallowed charity, cemented by the prayers of the 
people of God, and endowed its library and Atheneum; its 
cabinets and its laboratory, with the offerings of those who 
well understood the securities of the Bank of Christian Faith, 
and were willing to make large and liberal investments.” 
From the history of that institution, whose yet richer en- 
dowments have been in the blessings of the Spirit of God, 
we may, on the threshold of the work before us, derive in- 
valuable lessons. 

Let every stone in our foundation and superstructure 
be laid in faith and in the fear of God. Let every effort 


* Amherst College is chiefly under the auspices of the Congregational and Presby- 
terian Churches. It is, however, in the most Christian spirit, open to students of 
every denomination. It was established in 1821, under the Presidency of the Rev. 
Zephania Swift Moore, D.D.,and was incorporated by the Legislature of Massachusetts 
in 1825. Dr. Moore closed a life of singular usefulness in the cause of religion and 
learning in June, 1823, and was succeeded by the Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D., 
who has since filled the office with distinguished ability and success. Five large 
College buildings have been erected, each four stories in height; four of them con- 
taining, each about thirty rooms for students, and the fifth comprising a large Chapel, 
library-room, two rooms for Mineralogical Cabinet and Philosophical Apparatus, a spa- 
cious rhetorical chamber, four recitation-rooms, and commodious rooms for the che- 
mical and philosophical lectures and apparatus. In 1832, $50,000 was raised from the 
alumni and friends of the College. A part of this has been appropriated to the pay- 
ment of debts which accrued in the erection of the buildings, and the remainder to 
other purposes. In 1833, the College received from Europe philosophical and che- 
mical apparatus and books to the value of $8000. ‘The apparatus is now one of the 
most valuable and select in the country. The various libraries received an addition 
of about four thousand volumes, principally standard works in the English, French, 
Italian, Latin, and Greek languages. The College has a permanent fund 
of $30,000, raised in the infancy of its history with a view to aid “ promising and 
pious students in a course of preparation for the ministry.” It has received several 
valuable bequests from year tu year, and may now be said to be richly and permanently 
endowed. 


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put forth in-behalf of this Institution be in singleness and 
largeness of heart. Let us act under the profound con- 
viction that we are accomplishing a work which is to 
bless the present and coming generations of the Church of 
God. Let nothing be tamely or feebly done. To found 
-and rear and endow a Christian College, to earn for it a place 
in the affections and prayers of millions, and an honourable 
and enduring record in the annals of a purified national lite- 
rature ; to found a College on a permanent basis, and earn 
for it a commanding reputation for deep and thorough 
scholarship, for enterprise ‘‘no whit behind” the age, and for 
firm and salutary discipline in government, and whatever 
strengthens and embellishes the character of the student and 
equips him for the high duties of life—this is no every-day 
work. Jt behoves us to take in the whole idea, and in the 
attitude of a faith that is unwavering, and of an humility that 
is solemn and reverential, and of prayer that sends up its 
incense unceasingly before the throne of God, to adjust our 
powers to the duties before us. 

As a College of the Episcopal Church, this Institution 
must and will drink deep of her pure fountains of truth— 
will partake largely of her catholic spirit, of her love of or- 
der, and, we trust in God, of her love of immortal souls 
and zeal for their salvation, even to the ends of the earth— 
will train its students, to feel that they live for higher and 
larger and nobler purposes, than to ring changes upon the 
shiboleth of party, or to thread the labarynths and narrows 
of sectarianism, This Institution opens its halls at the very 
moment when a powerful impulse is given to all the great 
movements of Christian zeal and philanthropy ; when, by 
-events the most auspicious, the cause of Christian missions 
in the unmeasured fields of the West of our own country, 
and the whitening fields of the heathen world, are opened-to 
the apostolic enterprise of the Church. 


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Let us do all honour to the divine sentiment of the motto 
over the device of our corporate seal: Pray ym tHE Lorp 
OF THE HARVEST, TO SEND FORTH LABOURERS INTO THE HAR- 
vest.—The device itself is in beautiful keeping with the 
sentiment, and with the missionary and apostolic character 
of our Church :—A Biste—awn opEn Prayer Boox—an 
OLIVE BRANCH lying upon full and exuberant WHEAT SHEAVES, 
gathered and bound as in the time of harvest. May the stu- 
dents of this Institution ever honour the sentiment, whether 
they shall be called upon to spend their energy and zeal 
amidst the abominations of paganism, to minister at the 
altar of religion at home, or to carry the example and 
influence of cultivated minds and philanthropic and sancti- 
fied hearts into the walks of busy secular life-—Be it our 
work to train them all for God, to educate them both for 
time and for eternity ; that as Christian students they may, 
during their whole course, look up with docility and faith to 
the Great Teacuer of Rigureousness. In human science, 
let the magnificent truth of Bacon, be incessantly inculcated: 
‘‘Prospectationes fiunt a turribus aut locis prealtis, et im- 
posibile est ut quis exploret remotiores interioresque scien- 
tizs alicujus partes, si stet super plano ejusdem scientiz ne- 
que altioris scientiz veluti speculum conscendat.”—And 
while the students of this Institution learn, under the im- 
pulse of the most inspiring motives, to follow out the spirit 
of this truth, let them learn to count all things but loss for 
the transcendent excellency of the knowledge of Christ Je- 
sus their Lord,—each, for himself adopting the sentiment 
and the language of one, who is studying and investigating 
and living for,his whole being :—“in eternum sludeo—in 
eternum exquiro—in eternum vivo.” 

Under such a discipline of motive and in a College whose in- 
tellectual and physical work-shops are so nearly contiguous 


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that the cheerfulness of busy and useful industry, in the 
hours of relaxation from study, ministers a constant rebuke 
to indolence, and imparts healthful excitement and direction 
to all the active faculties—we may reasonably look for 
young men, who will come up to the standard of scholar- 
ship and enterprise demanded by this age and country. 

And now, in conclusion, allow me to say,—if this 
Institution is to stand for ages, a monument of the large 
and disinterested benevolence, the practical wisdom and 
steady and holy purpose of its founders,—if it is to send 
forth men of powerful and accomplished scholarship, and 
firm nerve and sanctified enterprise, to fill the responsible 
and solemn trusts of religion and science and legislation— 
we must be modest and wise enough to husband our resour- 
ces frugally—to adjust our energies to the incipient stages 
of a great work judiciously, and to address ourselves with 
all fidelity and faith, to the duties of endowing it and build- 
ing it up,—laying its stones with fair colours, and impart- 
ing to it stability and strength. 


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APPENDIX. 


T'ne following pages, appended to the Address in accordance with the 
request of the Board of Trustees, are republished principally from a series 
of articles by the author, which appeared in the Episcopal Recorder soon 
after the College received its charter. The object of these articles, (which 
in the present connexion have received some modifications and additions,) 
was to invite public attention to the Institution, as a College peculiarly 
Christian in its organization, commending itself to the Episcopal Charch 
especially, and to the friends of sound learning and religion every where. 
In the notes and extracts from the College laws, such information may be 
found as will answer the inquiries of any who design to apply for admis- 
sion to either department at the commencement of the Autumn or the en- 
suing Spring Term. | 


The deep interest felt throughout the Episcopal Church of this country, 
in those literary institutions in which liberal and sound learning and intel- 
ligent and fervent piety are cherished, in connexion with her pure and 
Scriptural worship and a high standard of Christian enterprise and self- 
denial, may be accounted an earnest and pledge of the generous and 
cordial sympathy with which they will regard not only the present aus- 
picious crisis in the history of Bristul College, but its future progress and 
usefulness. 

This important and rising institution is now invested with the fullest 
college privileges by a bill of incorporation, which having received the 
signature of the Governor of this Commonwealth, has become a law. 

The second section of this bill enacts, * That the said College shall 
for ever hereafter be called and known by the name of Bristow COLLEGE.” 

The fifth section is as follows: ‘* The President and Professors of the 
said College shall have power to grant and confirm, in concurrence with 
a quorum of the Board of Trustees, such degrees in the liberal arts and. 
sciences, or such branches thereof, io such students of the College or 
others, whom by their proficiency in learning or other meritorious dis- 
tinction, they shall think entitled to them—as are usually granted in other 
Colleges and Universities, and to grant to such graduates such diplo- 
mas or certificates under their common seal as may authenticate and 
perpetuate the memory of such graduation.” © 

This Institution may now justly be considered as possessing advantages 
which will entitle it to rank among the Colleges and Universities of the 
country. The present number of students connected with the several de- 
partments of the institution, is about eighty. The course of College 
studies embracing four years, is as elevated, thorough and extensive 

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as in the Colleges of the eastern States. The location is one of singu- 
lar beauty, and of great exemption from the temptations usually in- 
cident to College life. Manual labour, as a specific requisition, of the 
Corporation and Faculty, fills up a part of the intervals of study, and is 
found greatly to contribute to the health and energy of character of the 
students. 

The peculiar religious advantages of this College present a feature of 
great interest. ‘The President sustains the relation of pastor to the stu- 
dents and families connected with the institution. The Faculty as a body 
recognize also the obligations and duties of religious guardianship “over 
the students. At the I'aculty meetings of each week the religious state 
of the Cellege and the spiritual interests of individual students are made 
subjects of inquiry and prayer in connexion with their progress in study, 
and their faithfulness in business in the manual-labour department. 

The weight of religious influence on the part of a large number of 
pious students who are studying for the ministry, should be regarded as of 
very precious account in this estimate. Of the whole number of students, 
it is hoped that between fifty and sixty are truly spiritual in heart and 
life. Several of these appear to have been brought to a saving knowledge 
of the truth, since their connexion with the College. The ‘greater part 
of those who are regarded as truly pious, are now communicants in the 
College Church. ‘The exemplary, and in many instances, deeply serious 
deportment and spirit of the remaining part of the students, afford the 
most animating promise. 

The moral power and efficiency already possessed by this College, and 
beginning to be exerted in the promotion of the most cherished objects of 
beneficence in the Church, may be in some degree illustrated by the do- 
ings of its infant Missionary Society, which is auxiliary to the Domestic 
and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of 
the United States. A course of monthly missionary lectures in connexion 
with the general subject of Christian beneficence, and the responsi- 
bilities of the’ Church in the nineteenth century, was commenced soon 
after the organization of the institution. These lectures are especially 
designed to promote and cherish an intelligent and scriptural missionary 
spirit, among the students and the other members of the congregation of 
the College Church. The Missionary Society was organized on the first 
Monday evening of December. It will this year contribute to the Cause 
of missions in the Church, more than $800. 

By an article of the constitution of this Society, seventy-five dollars 
are annually to be paid to the Treasurer of the Episcopal Education So- 
ciety, to found a scholarship, to be called “’The Missionary Scholarship of 
Bristol College.” This is designed to support some student who has de- 
voted his life prospectively to the missionary work in a foreign field, and 
who is prosecuting his studies with this view. May not the friends of 
education and religion—the friends of this institution, which has been 
founded in the prayers and faith of the Church, Jook forward to the time 
when this infant Missionary Society, which is springing up as a vine, to 
cluster about its walls, shall not only be training a young missionary disci- 
ple for the field, within those walls—but actually supporting one missionary 
in his self-denying and holy work, and sending forth many others. This 
will, under Providence, depend greatly upon the prayers, and the prompt 
and liberal aid which the College may receive at this important crisis of 
its history. We are even now forcibly reminded of the language of the 


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sons of the Prophets, to Elisha,—“ Te place where we dwell is too 
straight for us.”* 


In the infancy of this institution, the importance of its being placed 
upon a permanent chartered basis, as a College, appeared obvious to its 
friends. The whole organization, therefore, was collegiate. It assumed, 
however, until it should be fully invested with the immunities and powers 
of a College charter, the more modest style of a ‘* Collegiate Institution.” 
The fact of its having now received, so early in its history, a charter 
which gives it a basis on which we may build with the most animating 
prospects of permanent and extensive usefulness, cannot fail to be appre- 
ciated—not only by men of mature and. ripe scholarship, but by all who 
would see it exempt from the contingencies of an ephemeral school. 

The founders and friends of this College do not in any wise dissemble, 
that it has been their steady object to consecrate it to the interests of sound 
learning and religion. They believe that the profoundest and most truly 
philosophical and practical views of a liberal education, must recognize 


* Such has been the number of applicants for admission, (between eighty 
and ninety,) beyond the accommodations of the present College edifice, that 
the Board of Trustees, at a recent meeting, resolved upon the immediate erec- 
tion of an additional building—Pernnsyiyanra Hatt. This is now in a state 
of thé most rapid progress. Commodious recitation and lecture-rooms, and 
the study-rooms and dormitories of one section of the edifice, are expected to 
be in readiness for occupancy at the commencement of the ensuing term, on 
the first of October. The completion of the entire plan of this edifice, (de- 
signed by a distinguished architect of one of the neighbouring cities, with 
great classical simplicity and taste, and with a studied reference to the adapta- 
tion of every part to College purposes) will be deferred until the next summer, 
when it is hoped the liberality of the friends of the institution will also place 
it in the power of the Trustees to lay the foundation of a nrw CoxriEeE 
Cuapret. This it is intended shall be the centre of an extensive building, 
corresponding with the edifice now in progress of erection. 

Is it too much for us to hope that the Chapel of a College, which is rising 
with such unequivocal promise of usefulness shall, like Rossr Caapet and 
Kenyon Coutrer, [Lady Rosse and Lord Kenyon,] bear the name of some 
munificent friend of learning and piety in the Church? There is surely no 
way in which an individual may perpetuate—we will not say the vain-glory 
of a posthumous reputation for largeness of heart earned only in the hour when 
the wealth of its idolatry can be no longer worshipped—there is no way in 
which a living or dying Christian, holding his earthly treasures as a steward . 
of God, and “seeing far off,’ can leave a memorial of such endimg.perpe- » 
tuity—of such ever-accumulating and immeasurable usefulness, as in the en- 
dowment of a Christian College. 

_ And we are ready to ask here, shall not the munificence of Girard, which 
has been heralded the world over—(we will not take upon ourselves to scru- 
tinize the motives which induced him explicitly to exclude the ministers of 
religion, and impliedly all religion and religious teaching, except that of na- 
ture, from his institution)—shall not the dying bequests of one whose sepul- 
chre has been already garnished almost as one of the righteous, and whose 
name is to have an urn in the hearts of widowhood and orphanage throughout 
every succeeding age—shall not the bequests of such an individual provoke 
some Christian, whose coffers the blessing of the Lord hath filled, and whose 
heart and hand he hath opened, to become the honoured benefactor of this in- 
stitution ? 


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the fact that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” It is a 
point of justice also, as well as Christian candour, that it should be under- 
stood to be an Episcopal College. It is open, however, to students of all 
Christian denominations, and, in this sense, may justly be regarded as an 
institution of general education, deserving the confidence and influence 
of all intelligent friends of learning and religion. But its Faculty of 
government and instruction, are all of the Episcopal Church. Its founders 
and early patrons are of the Episcopal Church. It must, therefore, stand 
before the public as an Episcopal institution, and look for its endowment 
and support, chiefly to individuals and families, connected with the Epis- 
copal Church. 

The course of instruction and study, as at present modified under the 
charter, it will be perceived, is thoroughly pervaded by Christian teaching 
and influence. “ ‘Ihe method and degree in which the Holy Scriptures 
are studied as a text book, are calculated to bring, and to keep the minds 
of students under the precious influence of the truth of God, in all their 
literary investigations.” It is a scriptural course, and especially designed 
to be such, with a view not only to the subsequent professional reading of 
those who are preparing for the general and diocesan seminaries, but also 
for those who have an ulterior view to the secular professions. Thus stu- 
dents who pass their under-graduate course in this College, are enabled 
to unite with the best literary and scientific education, that knowledge of 
the sacred Scriptures which may be admirably improved, but which is sel- 
dom adequately attained by such in the active and hurried business of sub- 
sequent life. While, therefore, tnis College affords peculiar facilities for 
those who are studying with reference to the ministry, it offers great at- 
traction to Christian parents and others, who in any degree appreciate the 
value of scriptural instruction, and the security of Christian and Pastoral 
guardianship.* 


Whatever may be said of College degrees,} it is a point fully established 


* 9. It shall be incumbent upon the Faculty to exercise a mild, parental 
guardianship over the students; and, so far as possible, to substitute a moral 
power over the heart, as a principle of order, in place of the fear of punish- 
ment, so that the penalties of the law shall fall only on those who yield not to 
purer and better motives, and are not influeneed by a regard to character, by 
filial gratitude, by the love of excellence, and a high religious sense of duty 
to God. 

10. ‘The President shall sustain the office of Pastor to the students and 
families of the institution, who shall together constitute an Episcopal congre- 
gation, worshipping on the Lord’s-day and on other occasions in the College 
Chapel.— Laws of Bristol College, Chap. Il. Sec. IX. X. 


¢ The following is the prescribed course of instruction and study, for a 
bachelor’s degree, at this College :— ' 


STUDIES PREPARATORY TO THE FRESHMAN CLASS. 


Each student presenting himself for admission to the Freshman Class, will 
be expected to sustain a critical examination on the following subjects and 
authors :— 

Grammar of the English, Latin and Greek Languages, Cesar’s Commen- 
taries, iv. books, or the Latin Reader ; Virgil, Sallust, and Cicero’s Select Ora- 
tions; Greek Reader, or Greca Minora; Quantity and Scanning in each lan- 
guage; Modern Geography, and Arithmetic. 


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by enlightened public opinion, in this and other countries, that as authen- 
ticating and perpetuating the fact of regular collegiate graduation, such 


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- COLLEGIATE STUDIES. 
Freshman Class. 

Crcrro on the Immortality of the Soul. Stewart’s Select Classics, Vol. I. 

Livy, v. nooxs. 

Grecian ann Roman Antreaurriss. 

CoxtiecTanna Grmca Masora. Xenophon. (Cyrop. and Anab.) 

Pratro’s Pumpo. Stewart’s Select Classics, Vol. IT. 

Serrvacint. Book of Daniel. 

AerBra and Gromerry. 

New Txsramenr. (Exegetical Reading in Greek.) St. Matthew's Gose 
pel—Christ’s Sermon on the Mount—St. Luke’s Gospel, chapters xviii. xix, 
xx. and xxi.—Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ, chapters xxiii. and xxiv. 

Exercises in Elocution, Double Translation, and English and Latin Com- 
position, during the year. 

Sophomore Class. 

Horace. 

Grmca Masorna. Hesiod, Herodotus, and Thucidides. 

Serruacint. Mosaic History—(Genesis, and Exode of. the Israelites.) 

Trreconometry. Descriptive Geometry and Surveying. 

Cicero pE Orarore. | 

New Testament. Acts of the Apostles—Conversion of Saul of Tarsus, 
chap. ix.—St. Paul at Athens, chap. xvii—St. Paul’s defence before Agrippa, 
chap. xxvil.— Epistle to the Galatians—Epistle to the Ephesians—Revel. St. 
John—Epistles to the Seven Asiatic Churches, chapters i. ii. iii. 

_Raztoric. Whately, with Lectures on Oratory. 

History. By subjects, and with lectures. 

Dissertations in English and Latin, Forensic Disputes and Declamations, 
during the year. 

Junior Class. 
_ Review of Selected Odes and Epodes of Horace, and Art of Poetry. 

Porz’s Art or Porrry, in English, (critical reading.) 

Logic. Whately—with Lectures, 

Graca Masons. Longinus, Aristotle, Plato, and Homer. 


Sertuagint. Isaiah, and selections from the Psalms and Minor Pro- 
phets. 


Conxre Secrions and Dirrerenrrat Carcurvs. 

Narvrat Purtosoray. Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Magnetism, 
Optics, and Astronomy. 

*Frenca. Charles XIJ—Bossuet’s Funeral Orations. 

Naturat Turotoey. Paley. 

Tacirus. History, de Mor. Ger. and Vita Agricole. 

Evipencrs or Curistianiry. Mcllvaine. 

C cero pe Orricits. 

Curistian Erarcs. New Testament. 

Dissertations in English, Latin, and Greek, Forensic Disputes, and Original 
Declamations, during the year. 

Senior Class. 
*Hesrew. Stuart’s Grammar and Chrestomathy. 


* When the Professor-elect of Hebrew, Latin and German shal] have entered upon 


his duties, it will be optional with the Junior Class to study French or German; and 
with the Senior, German or Hebrew. 


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degrees are and will be regarded as good evidence, until the contrary be 
shown, that the scholars whose name they bear, have been liberally edu- 
cated. The scholar who receives a degree at the close of a regular course 
of collegiate education, has a decided and unequivocal advantage over him 
who enters upon professional study or professional duty, without one. Ob- 
jections so often urged to this position, are contravened and set aside 
wholly by the slightest reference to the actual state of opinion and senti- 
ment in every well-educated community. _An entire new order of senti- 
ment must obtain, among educated men; their literary associations must 
be utterly broken up, and their college reminiscences be entirely oblite- 
rated—especially if they have sons to educate—before they can overlook 
the advantages of a degree from a chartered College, in which the at- 
mosphere is pure, and where religion goes hand in hand with science. It 
avails nothing to say that individuals have risen to usefulness and distine- 
tion, by the self-sustained energy and ardour of genius, without ever hav- 
ing seen the walls of a Colleze—that others, with only moderate powers, 
have, by diligence and perseverance, held on their way till, in their course 
of usefulness, they have far surpassed those who had enjoyed the rarest 
advantages of a liberal education. All this may be freely admitted. Still, 
an extensive and thorough collegiate education and the degrees in course, 
can never, with sound and well-judging minds, fail to be appreciated, es- 
pecially in an enlightened college-nursing community. 

It is admitted on all hands, that a course of liberal and severe scientific 
and literary studies is essential to the successful investigation of legal 
science and jurisprudence, and that young men who are preparing for the 
bar or the forum, who willingly, or from the necessity of circumstances, 
fail to avail themselves of such a course, enter upon their career under 
acknowledged disadvantages. The importance of a full under-graduate 
course for those who are designed for the medical profession is admitted 
to almost an equal extent. The value and importance of such a course is 
seen, not only on account of the knowledge attained, but of the intellec- 
tual discipline which it enables the student to bring to those subjects which, 
in the wide range of professional reading and study, require the most pa- 
tient and steady application of every faculty of the mind. | 

It is greatly to be deplored, that while such are the views entertained 
of the furniture and discipline necessary to the secular professions, the 
opinion should to any extent obtain, that a short and superficial course is 
sufficient as preparatory to theological studies. The demand for minis- 
ters is great. But it does not hence follow that there is or ought to be 


a CEN RI re ig ceed 0 Fe NEA tS See ay Ee tet Se eR OS A SS Se 


Lowrn’s Lectures on Hebrew Poeiry. 

Inrettectuat Pariosopuy. 

Cicero de Senectute, and de Amicitia. 

Natura Parrosorny, by subjects, (with Lectures.) 

Anatomy and Puysioxoey, (with Lectures.) 

Lecrures upon Latin, Greek, Saxon, and Oriental Literature. 

Curmistry and Narvurau History, (with Lectures.) 

Burrer’s ANALOGY. 

Lecrures upon English, French, and German Literature. 

Constitution or THE Unrrep Srarzs. Bayard’s Exposition. 

Curistian Eratcs. New Testament. 

Orations in English, French, Latin, and Greek, Dissertations and Forensic 
Disputes, Archeology in connexion with the Classics and Hory ScrirTurREs, 
during the whole course. 


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any demand for such as are utterly unfurnished for the sacred work. The 
cry for able, holy, self-denying thoroughly-furnished ministers of the New 
Testament, workmen that need not be ashamed, is loud, and ought to be 
echoed as coming with solemn injunctions of duty along with it, from the 
oracles of God. The cry is importunate and earnest, and ought to com- 
mand reverent attention at every altar, and in every Sunday school, and 
every Bible class, and every family, throughout the breadth of the land, 

Sanctified and thoroughly-trained intellect, primitive and apostolic fer- 
vour and zeal, benevolence and enterprise in harmony and keeping with 
the spirit of achievement of the 19th century, and the spirit of Christ in 
all ages, is greatly needed in the ministry.—But are we in such need of 
numerical strength, that our young men must be burried through a mea- 
gre and superficial course preparatory to the seminaries, with intellectual 
habits the most feeble and desultory—before the energies of their minds 
have been waked to scarcely a single vigourous and healthful effort, and 
before they have made attainments which would secure them admission 
to the Freshman class of our Colleges?’ Of what patent or stereoty ped 
process have we at length learned the secret, which enables us to do in 
two or three years of a seminary course, the proper work of seven or eight? 
Is intelligent and faithful exegesis at length discovered to be of go little 
importance to the theological student, that no previous philological train- 
Ing is necessary? Does the profound and comprehensive science of Serip- 
tural theology—do ecclesiastical polity and Church history and govern- 
ment, pastoral duties, a chastened and fervid eloquence, deep and simple 
piety and enlarged Christian enterprise and zeal, demand energies and 
habits of mind so moderate—patience and self-denial, and steadiness of 
purpose so little becoming and so little honouring the faith of the Gospel, 
that students who are nursed by the beneficence and cheered and sustain. 
ed by the prayers of the Church, are to suffer themselves to be influenced 
and turned aside from their course by the partial and erroneous views of 
' friends, or by slight impediments, or a desire to enter early upon active 
service? . 

The Episcopal Education Society, which supports a large and highly 
promising corps of students upon scholarship foundations at this College, 
wisely determined to aid none but with the full and distinct understanding 
that they design to pass through an entire under-graduate and seminary 
course. And it is believed this circumstance will be found greatly to in- 
spire the confidence and affection of the friends of sound learning and the 
Church throughout the country. The age demands it. The voice of the 
Church demands it. Where and to what but the thorough-training of 
our Colleges and Theological Seminaries, with the calling and blessing of 
the Holy Ghost, are we to look for those well-furnished men of God— 
those able ministers of Jesus Christ—those self-denying and devoted pas- 
tors of his flock, who will “ rightly divide the word of truth” —« never ceas- 
ing their labour, their care and diligence, until they have done all that lieth 
in them, according to their bounden duty, to bring all such as shall be 
committed to them unto agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, 
and to ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ?” 


If it be important to train the mind to habits of thorough investigation, 
and to a prompt and efficient command of its powers+if it be important 
to enrich it with the treasures of human and divine science—to familiar- 
ize it with the paths of enlarged thought, cultivated feeling, refined taste, 
pure and exalted motive, and a fearless and selfdenying Christian enter- 
prise, there cannot be a doubt of the almost paramount importance of hav- 


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ing regard, in the whole course of education, to the sound and vigourous 
health of the body. This, it is believed, is admitted on all hands. But 
what is to be done? Are we utterly to decry the old and time-honoured sys- 
tems of education, because the trite motto, ‘sana mens in corpore sano,” 
has not been more distinctly recognized by them! Are we to disregard 
those profound principles of liberal education which ‘have been tried, and 
have not been found wanting—because they have not generally, in the 
Colleges and Universities of our country, been acted upon in connexion 
with systematic corporeal regimen? No. But it may be our duty in es- 
tablishing and endowing a new institution, to incorporate, as a radical 
principle, diffusing its healthful influence through every department, what 
may have been too long overlooked, or from the necessity of circumstances, 
is still rejected in others.* It may be, and most unquestionably it is, our 


PU ee ee 


* 1, In regard to manual-labour, or exercise in the College shops, gardens, 


and farm, as an important if not an essential part of a thorough and truly li- 
beral and valuable education, the sentiment of Plato is adopted as fundamen- 
tal: that it “ought to be every where maintained that a G00D EDUCATION 
imparts to the inv and nopy all the power, all the beauty, and all the per- 
fection of which they are capable.’”> 
2. The Physical Department of Education in this Institution shall be enti- 
tled to an equal degree of attention and supervision from the Board of 'Trus- 
tees and the Faculty, with the intellectual—with this difference, that the exer- 
cises of the former shall be considered as subserving and promoting those of 
the latter—while both are considered as parts of a good education, and in the 
prescribed course of this Institution, not to be dispensed with. 


3. Every student of the Collegiate and Academical Department shall cheer-. 


fully and faithfully engage in some manual exercise or labour under the direc- 
tion (more or less immediate) of the Faculty, three hours of each secular day 
of the week, except Saturday. And on Saturday P. M., from two to four 
hours, according to directions received from the Faculty, or the Actuary. 

4. Each student of the Academical and Collegiate Departments, after the 
first week of his connexion with the Institution, shall be assigned by the Fa- 
culty to some regular employment in the Department of Physical Education, 
and shall make no change from that employment, without leave obtained from 
the President. In assigning students to the exercises of the shops, farm, and 
gardens, the Faculty are expected to consult, so far as circumstances allow, the 
will of the parent or guardian, or of the student himself; and to have refer- 
ence to any skill which he may have previously acquired in any mechanical, 
agricultural, or horticultural employment—as well as to any decided taste or 
adaptation of the views and tact of any student to any one of the various kinds 
of exercise. 

5. Every student shall, if assigned to any regular daily employment in the 
work-shops, be required to furnish his own tools. This requisition is based on 
the same principle which requires him to furnish his own books. 

6. Every student who is assigned to the farm or gardens, and is furnished 
with regular employment, shall, after his credit account shall have been open- 
ed by the Actuary, pay into the treasury one dollar each term, as in part pay- 
ment for the use of agricultural and horticultural implements. 

7. The first twenty weeks of a student’s connexion with the Institution, 
shall, in every instance, whether the student have previously learned any me- 
chanical trade or not, be considered as initiatory in regard to manual-labour. 


} Ovxcuy ort pty topenre Ket Luxas ray ya o@8av mavras Je reopny peiver Bot Fuv2- 
LAB OS KAARITTA nets telora Meeyacer Ox, tours muey cedars esguerees aou.—PLaTo. 


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duty, in laying the foundation of an institution which will, we hope, send 
forth well-trained and strong men to fill the great trusts of religion and 


If, in the opinion of the Faculty, after consultation with the Actuary, any stu- 
dent shall not have acquired, after twenty weeks, such a degree of skill as that 
he can pursue his exercise with such a degree of pecuniary profit as to render 
it proper, upon the general principles on which the books of this Department 
are kept, to open a credit account with him, he may be continued in his exer- 
cise as initiatory such additional time as the Faculty shall think necessary or 
expedient. 

8. After a student shall have finished his initiatory course, and shall have 
been presented by the Faculty to the Actuary as having finished it, it shall be 
the duty of the Actuary to open a credit account with him. ake 

9. The basis of all credit entries in the books of the Actuary, shall be the 
actual profit resulting from work performed,.on five days of the week, and 
not any supposed or even intrinsic value of the said work. ‘These accounts 
shall be adjusted with each student only at such times as the Actuary shall ap- 
point, when he shall have been able to ascertain the exact, or to have approxi- 
mated as near as in his power toward the exact amount of the actual profit. 

10. At every settlement with a student, in reference to his credit account 
for manual-labour, (which account shall be kept wholly separate and apart 
from his College bills,) the Actuary shall deduct eight per cent. from the 
amount of credit. The amount arising from this deduction, shall be paid into 
the College treasury, as in part payment for the rent and use of shops and 
grounds, and other expenses incident to the management of the Department 
of manual-labour. 

11. There shall be at least one general muster for manual-labour on each se- 
cular day of the week, under the direction of the Actuary, subject to the Pre- 
sident or some other College officer ; and each student shall be under the same 
obligation to be punctually present, and to observe every regulation established 
for the police of the muster, as he is to observe the laws and regulations which 
relate to the recitation and lecture rooms. 

12. After the sections are dismissed, it shall be the duty of each student to 
proceed without delay, under the direction of the Actuary or of the Prefect of 
his section, as the case may be, to the exercise assigned to him; and unless 
previously excused by the President or by the Actuary, to continue diligently 
employed in the business in which he is engaged until, at the close of the time 
of exercise, he is dismissed by the Actuary, or, under his direction, by the Pre- 
fect of his section. 

13. The exercise or work of all the students, during the hours regularly as- 
signed on each Saturday afternoon, will not, in any sense, enter into the credit 
account of the Actuary. Each student will be required cheerfully and faith- 
fully to perform the duties assigned to him in embellishing the grounds, or in 
any work of the shops, farm, gardens, &c. ' 

14, Any student refusing to comply with the direction of the Actuary, or to 
engage diligently and in proper spirit in the work or exercise assigned either 
on Saturday P. M., or the other secular days of the week; or who wantonly 
injures any agricultural implements or tools not belonging to him; or any arti- 
cle of manufacture ; or who shall make a wasteful and careless use of the,boards 
or other stuff used in the shops; or who shall, without the permission of the 
Actuary, appropriate any thing from the shops or grounds to his use ; and any 
student manifesting dissatisfaction with his credits, shall be responsible to the 
College authorities upon the same principles, in regard to penalties, as in the 
Intellectual Department. 

15. Each Prefect shall exercise the authority committed to him by the Ac- 


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science and legislation, for generations to come—to see that provision be 
made while the elements are under our hand, for sound health of body, 
active industry, endurance of fatigue, and firm Christian manliness of cha- 
racter. We may be pardoned, in the nineteenth century of the Church, 
for being unambitious of seeing among our alumni any of those specimens 
of “diluted manhood,” who associate the idea of vulgarity and meanness 
with all manual labour. The tinve has come when we may speak at large 
on this subject. The time has come when sedentary invalids of all pro- 
fessions are rising up by hundreds—nay, by thousands, and demanding in 
a voice which cannot fail to be heard, and which must be obeyed, that sys- 
tematic and regular manual labour be incorporated in the very frame-work 
of our new institutions. Nay, a voice stil] more solemn comes up from 
the premature graves of genius and erudition, and eminent professional 
usefulness, entreating us to lay aside prejudice—to look at facts—to inquire 
gravely and earnestly what can be done to save our most promising young 
mien from those College diseases which so often utterly blight their pros- 
pects of usefulness. 

There has been a reat deal of very specious philosophy thrown away 
on this subject. The theoretical have theorized, and the practical have 
experimented, and innovators have innovated, and been made ashamed of 
their innovations. With all this we have no sympathy, but we believe 
that a well organized College, adopting at its very foundation healthful 
manual labour, as a means of preserving and sustaining health, lessening 
the expenses of education, and invigorating the whole character, may de- 
monstrate by a steady and judicious course—by the unfeigned attachment 
of its students to this exercise—by the men whom it sends out from its 
halls—by its exemption from the vices attendant upon physical and intel- 
lectual indolence, and the misery entailed upon confirmed and slow-wasting 
college diseases, that the alternation of labour and study, together with 
short seasons of leisure and recreation, is the course which sound wisdom 
dictates, and which sound wisdom does and will approve. A powerful re- 
action has been produced upon the public mind on this subject, from which 
it is only just recovering. Schools have been established with the most 
meagre and inadequate provision for profitable and agreeable manual la- 
bour, without proper reference to their location, with injudicious arrange- 
ments in regard to board, with very little to inspire public confidence in 
the way of experience in teaching and government. What wonder, if 
there has been here and there a failure?) What wonder, if those whose 
attachment to what is old, and aversion to every species of enterprise, 
whether based upon sound practical wisdom, or flimsy theory, should be 
eagle-eyed’ in discovering these failures? What wonder, if they should 
YTS POM ee UP rein ah cn WAROTE BEE Gt STITT a pore 
tuary, under his special direction ; and shall be responsible to the Faculty for 
the faithful discharge of his duties. 

16. Each pupil of the Select School shall be assigned such manual exercise 
by the Faculty as may be adapted to his age, for a time not exceeding two 
hours of each day of five days of the week, and not exceeding three on Satur- 
day afternoon. 

The initiatory course of students in this department will, in consideration of 
their age, in general, be from 20 to 40 weeks, or longer as the case may be. 
When this time shall have passed, and a pupil is presented by the Faculty as 
having passed it, the Actuary will open a eredit account with such pupil, upon 
the principles stated in the 4th section of this chapter — Laws of Bristol Col- 
lege, Chap. vii—Manual Labour. / 


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not stop to examine very scrupulously the causes of them? What won- 
der if, according to the loose modes of reasoning in such matters, they 
should come to the grave conclusion, that because a mere ephemeral school, 
situated, for example, in [ :diana or Michigan, remote from any large town 
which could offer a market for the manufactures of its shops, or the pro- 
ducts of its gardens or farm, established without money and without 
scarcely a single element of a permanent and durable character—what 
wonder, if, upon the failure of such an affair, the grave conclusion should 
be jumped at, that manual labour cannot be incorporated with a permanent 
College? It is one thing to attempt to chain manual labour to a sliding 
sand bank, and try to make the world believe that after all, the way to edu- 
cate mind, is to make students carry a heavy load up and down a sand hill 
fora year or two, and quite another thing to incorporate with a College 
erected upon a permanent basis, and of durable material, such a modification 
of manual exercise or labour, as is consistent, and in keeping with the sound- 
est and most intelligent views of the laws of the intellectual and physica} 
constitution of man, and of the best training ina course of liberal education. 

The founders of Bristol College do not claim to have been wise above 
what is written, in the chapter of human experience and observation, in 
regard to the importance of affording to its students the means of healthful 
and useful exercise, in connexion with an extensive and full course of 
studies. They are not unaware, however, of the erroneous views which 
are still entertained by many in regard to the primary object of this exer- 
cise. T'hey wish that it may be distinctly understood, that gain in money on 
the part of the student should be entirely secondary. ‘They have attached 
the College work-shops, and farm, and garden to the institution, and made 
provision for systematic and regular and profitable exercise in manual la- 
bour during the intervals of study, mainly with a view to the health of the 
students. They do not overlook the intimate connexion which subsists 
between sound physical health and firmness of character in literary men; 
between strength of nerve and strength of purpose, and-high and holy en- 
terprise and self-denying zeal in those who are to be trained to endure 
hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. They wish to be circumspect 
and cautious in regard to the motives that may seem to be held out to 
students on the score of manual labour. Such will be the facilities for 
profitable exercise, after the range of shops shall have been finished, and 
the agricultural and horticultural arrangements shall be complete, that 
every student may realize so much as considerably to diminish hie — 
College expenses, after he has become familiar with the use of tools, and 
inured to exercise. There should, however, be no mistake on this subject. 
The first twenty weeks—the initiatory period established by the Board— 
will result in no actual gain in money to the student. The reason and 
necessity of this arrangement must be manifest to every one who is the 
least acquainted with the time actually demanded in every kind of me- 
chanical employment, to acquire a sufficient degree of skill to earn any 
thing. Students should enter upon their exercise, therefore, under the 
impulse of higher motives: resolved to make manual labour subservient 
to more vigorous and powerful scholarship ; to firm health of body, and to 
habits of endurance and self-denial, and for the first months of the course 
to be satisfied with the incaleulably valuable gain of these alone, and with 
laying the foundation in the strength of muscle, and the skill they acquire 
for such pecuniary gains, during the subsequent years of College study, as 
may, in cases where such aid is necessary, be applied to the expenses of 
books, &c., in others, to the commencement of private libraries, or to ob- 
jects of Christian beneficence. 


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it isdeemed important by the Board of Trustees and the Faculty that 
the features of the undergraduate course in this institution should be 
more fully brought before the public, asits organization is in some respects 
peculiar. The Setecr Scuoor constitutes the first or lowest department, 
and is designed for boys between the ages of ten and fifteen. This de- 
partment is arranged on the same general principles and plan as that of 
the large and excellent school for boys, “ The Flushing, Institute,” estab- 
lished and successfully conducted by the Rev. W. A. Mulenburg. Its num- 
ber is, however, designed to be small, the College Laws limiting it to twenty- 
five. It is, in a very pure sense, select. As a school for boys it is distinct 
from the College proper, yet as a department of the institution it is under 
the constant religious guardianship of the President as pastor, and of the 
teaching and influence of the other College officers. The pupils in this 
school are most of them preparing for the Freshmen class of the collegiate 
course. They study under the special superintendence of the Teacher of 
the Latin and Greek classics, and occupy dormitories nearly adjoining his 
room. Particular attention is paid to their English studies, and the most 
constant paternal care exercised over them. They take their meals in 
the College refectory with several of the officers of the institution, and the 
students of the other departments, and worship with them morning and 
evening and on Sunday, in the Chapel. It cannot fail to be seen that so 
select and limited a Christian school for boys, connected with a College, 
the majority of whose students exhibit the influence of pure religious 
example—the most powerful of all ways in which the truth, in the very 
beauty of Christian holiness, can be enforced—presents strong attractions 
to parents. ‘The association of the pupils of this department with the 
students of the higher College classes—the majority of whom are young 
men—the examples of intellectual and manual industry every day before 
them—the influence of the manners and scholarship, as well as the piety 
and pure principles of the members of both the higher departments, exert 
the most salutary influence in the development and formation of their cha- 
racter. 

It is proper to remark, in this connexion, that this Select School of the 
College is, in its general arrangements, adapted to the views and circum- 
stances of those families of the Episcopal Church and others, who not only 
appreciate the value of religious instruction and guardianship in connexion 
with the best advantages of intellectual and physical culture, and the in- 
fluence of an atmosphere so thoroughly pervaded by the influence of Chris- 
tian example; but who have the ability and the disposition to meet the 
necessary expenses of such a preparatory course for their sons at the most 
critical and important period of their education.* It has been, and is a 
cherished object of the founders of this institution, while they afford to 
young men 1m the collegiate and academical departments the choicest fa- 
cilities of a thorough liberal education at the lowest possible charge, and 
provide by their scholarship foundations, for a large number of students, 
who, without means, are panting for the service of the ministry of the 
Church, to sustain, from the very commencement of its history, this pre- 
cious religious school as a means of usefulness scarcely less important 
than the College itself. Many of the most promising sons of the Church 
will, they trust, iftheir efforts are encouraged by adequate patronage and 


* See p. 40, Annual Expense in the Serxcr Scnoot. 


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support, commence their training for eminent usefulness in this depart- 
ment of the Institution. 


The next division in rank is the AcapEMicaL DEPARTMENT, (deno- 
minated such in the sense of academical training preparatory for the course 
of studies of the Contece proper,) but distinct in all its arrangements 
from the Select School, and designed for young men, or youth over fifteen, 
who have either begun, or who are about to enter, upon studies preparatory 
to the Fyeshman class. The majority of the students of this department, 
which is limited to sixty, are over nineteen years of age, and large num- 
bers of them studying with an ulterior view to the ministry. This de- 
partment is organized on the general plan of the New England academies, 
with this important difference, that the students are in constant habits of 
association with the College students, and prosecute their studies under the 
tuition of the College officers, who alternate in sitting with them in the study- 
room, and who hear their recitations in separate rooms appropriated to the 
purpose. ‘They are members of the same Christian household, and parti- 
cipate in the advantages, not only of a critical and thorough preparation for 
the subsequent course of collegiate studies, but of the literary atmosphere 
created around them; of’ the retired location of the Institution; its ex- 
emption from village and city temptations ; its physical exercise, and the 
spirit of active and benevolent enterprise which pervades it. The students 
of this department are expected to remain connected with it from one to 
three years. 'This will depend upon the degree of advancement in their 
preparatory studies when admitted, and upon their application and success 
in study, 


It will be perceived that these two departments, while they. present for 
the respective classes of students for whom they were designed rare ad- 
vantages, subserve, in several very important views, the interests and the 
usefulness of the Cotne@e proper, the highest department at present 
organized. The Freshman class of the College will be yearly reinforced 
by students from the first forms both of the Academical Department and 
Select School, thoroughly and critically trained in their studies, and ac- 
customed to understand what it is to be in statu pupulari, and what it is to 
enjoy faithful religious teaching, where the popular sentiment around 
them impresses and enforces it. The College will derive from these two 
subordinate departments important aid to its revenue, and what is by no 
means to be overlooked, will secure the prayers and influence and efficient 
patronage of many, whose sons, but for this arrangement, must be excluded 
from its privileges, and exposed to influences, during their preparatory 
course, hostile to their spiritual interests, and, in many instances, to their 
habits of study. 

By a recurrence to the first pages of this Appendix, and to the note on 
the 29th page, presenting the range of collegiate studies, it will be seen 
that no partial or superficial course is pursued. And we wish it to 
be well understood before students apply for admission, that this course 
cannot be accomplished without a considerable maturity of mind, and the 
most exemplary diligence in application. 


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NOTICE TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS. 


Tur Collegiate year commences on the first day of October. Students 
designing to apply for admission into the Fresuman, SopHomore, and 
Junzor Cuasses of the College proper, are expected to be at the Institu- 
tion for examination by 12 o’clock on the day preceding. They are re- 
ferred to the note on the 28th and 29th pages of this Appendix (embracing 
the preparatory and collegiate studies,) for information as to the subjects 
and authors required for admission to the Freshman class, and are re- 
quested to observe, in reference to admission to either of the other classes 
of the College proper, or to the Academical Department, or the Select 
School, the following extract from the College Laws: 

“No person shall be admitted to the Freshman Class of the College, 
till he has completed his fourteenth year, nor to an advanced standing, 
without a proportional increase of age. 

«Every candidate for admisssion to an advanced standing shall be 
critically examined on all the subjects and authors recited by the class 
which he desires to enter, and no such candidate shall be admitted to such 
standing, unless he shall be found fully qualified for the same. 

«Any student, however, who comes recommended from any other 
College, will, if he present full and satisfactory testimonials of pure and 
unblemished character, and meet all other requisitions of the laws relating 
to the admission of students, be considered as entitled, without examination, 
to the standing which he held at the time of his taking a dismission from 
such College. 

“ No student can be admitted as a member of any one of the classes of 
this College, from any other College, unless he produce a certificate from the 
proper authority, of his regular and honourable dismission and standing. 

«“ No student shall be admitted into either department of the Institution 
without a specific and well accredited testimonial from the instructor, or 
instructors, under whose tuition he had been, or the persons with whom he 
had lived, immediately previous to his application for admission. To this 
there must in every case be added a testimonial from some other person 
to whom he is well known. These papers must certify fully and explicitly 
to the pure and correct moral character of the individual presenting them, 
and to his exemplary diligence in study, if he has been previously en- 
gaged in study. ‘These testimonials must be handed to the President. 

“ Every student must deposit with the Actuary [who has the charge of 
the fiscal concerns of the Institution,] at the time of his entrance, al least 
one half of the annual charge. At the commencement of each succeeding 
term, during his connexion with the Institution, the same advance pay- 
ment must be made; those special cases only excepted, which, in the 
judgment of the Actuary, should be referred to the consideration of the 
Trustees, together with the cases of those students who are on the scholar- 
ship foundations of the Episcopal Education Society, and those others to 
whom tuition is gratuitous. These last must pay theor bills quarterly in 
advance, or give satisfactory security. 

« Any student of the Collegiate or Academical Department, entering. 
after the opening of a term, or leaving before the close of it, shall pay 
the tuition for the whole term. Any student of the Select School, en- 
tering after the commencement of a term, or leaving before the close of it, 
shall, unless the occasion of his absence be that of illness, pay the amount 


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of the semi-annual charge in that department. No absences from the In- 
stitution of less than one term, shall be deducted from the recular bills, 
and then only the item of board shall be deducted. 

“ Every student, at the time of his admission, shall enter in a book 
kept for that purpose by the Secretary of the Faculty, his name, age, 
place of residence, and the address of his parent, guardian, or the person 
at whose charge he is received. A copy of the Laws will then be siven 
him, and charged in his bill.”—College Laws, Chap. iii. Sec. 1, 2, 8, 4, 5. 


STATEMENT OF EXPENSES IN THE COLLEGIATE 
DEPARTMENT. 


All undergraduates of the Collegiate Department, except those who are 
on the Scholarship foundations of the Episcopal Education Society, or who 
are supported by benevolent individuals in their preparation for the Epis- 
copal ministry, or those who are pursuing the same course without any 
other aid than that which they derive from manual labour and teaching, 
[such receive their tuition gratuitously,] will pay for the forty weeks of 


term-time—for board, $1 874 per week, - - - $99 
For tuition, meets mtg path ce rae st LINER a MMM TUNE hs 35 
‘** Room-rent, - Shania (Non eM & “ : : 10 
100 


A charge of $2 will be entered in each term bill for repairs and paint- 
ing of buildings, and for servants’ care of rooms, not including making of 
fires and making of beds. Each student will have the care and charge 
of his own washing—[#2 50 to $5 per term]—and will be charged at the 
close of each term his proportion of the expense of fuel and oil furnished 
by the Actuary. Each student will be required to furnish his own lamp, 
single bedstead, mattress, and bed-clothing, wash-stand, wash-bowl, 
pitcher and tumbler, towels, and room-furniture. 

Beneficiaries of the Episcopal Education Society will be required to pre- 
sent to the President, certificates of the Corresponding Secretary of the said 
Society, that they have been accepted by its Board of Managers, and of 
the particular Scholarship to which they have been designated. 

Beneficiaries supported by other societies, or by individuals of the Epis- 
copal Church, together with such as support themselves by teaching and 
manual labour, will be requried to present to the President certificates, 
signed by at least one clergyman and two laymen, that from personal ac- 
quaintance, or from the fullest evidence derived from others, they are be- 
lieved to be truly pious, possessed of such talents and spirit as will ren- 
der them apt and meet to exercise the ministry, and that they are believed 
to be moved to this work by truly conscientious and scriptural motives. 

All monies designed for expenses in any way, not included in the above 
items of $100, must, if the student be under eighteen years of age, be 
placed in the hands of the President, and each student will be required to 
keep an account of all monies received and expended under his direction, 


EXPENSES IN THE ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 


The charge of students in this department, (none being admitted under 
Jifteen years of age, nor for less than one year,) will be for board, tuition, 
and room-rent, for the academical year, $125. 

Each student will pay for incidental expenses, for repair of buildings, 


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and servants’ care of room, $2; will have the charge and expense of hisown 
washing—[from $2 50 to $9 per term|—and his proportion of the expense 
of fuel and oil, furnished by the Actuary. He will be required also to 
farnish his own bedstead, mattress and bed-clothing, wash-stand, wash-bow], 
towels, and room-furniture. 

Beneficiaries of the classes specified in the above statement, if they 
are pursuing their studies with a view to the collegiate course in this In- 
stitution, will, if they present the required testimonials, be admitted to 
the Academical Department at the same annual charge as is made for 
beneficiaries of the Collegiate Department, for board and room-rent. 
The charge for incidental expenses, for servants’ care of rooms, the ar- 
rangement for washing, fuel, oil, &c. will be the same as specified above. 

All monies designed for expenses, in any way; not included in the an- 
nual bill of $1 25, the regular charge in this department, must, if the stu- 
dent be under eighteen years of age, be placed in the hands of the Prest- 
dent, and each student will be required to keep an account of all monies 
received and expended under his direction. 


EXPENSES OF THE SELECT SCHOOL. 


The charge in the Select School, including tuition, board, room-rent, 
fuel, oil, washing, care of clothes, servants’ attentions to rooms, and in 
special consideration of the supervision and care exercised in establishing, 
at the early age of the pupils of this department, [between ten and fifteen, | 
correct habits of study, imbuing their mindsand hearts with pure religious 
principles and influence, will be two hundred dollars. Each pupil of the 
Select School will be required to furnish himself with a Bible and Prayer- 
Book, with a narrow bedstead, hair or wool mattress, four sheets, four 
pillow-cases, with other bed clothing, four towels, (all marked with his 
name and the residence of his family,) nail, tooth, cloth, and hair 
brushes. 

All monies designed to be expended by the pupils of this department, 
in any way not embraced in the items. for which the annual charge of 
#200 is made, must be placed in the hands of the President, and each 
pupil will be required by him to keep an account of all monies which 
he receives and expends under his direction. 


RECAPITULATION OF EXPENSES. 


COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT. 


Board, 40’ weeks of the Collegiate year, $1 374 per week, - $55 00 
Tuition, a ee ee a) el 35 00 
Room-rent, - - - - - - - - - 10 00 
$100 00 
Incidental expenses for servants’ care of room, for repairs 

and painting of buildings, per term, - - $2 00 

. Washing, per term, from $2 50 to 5 00 

Fueland oil, - - - - - - ~ its cost. 


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BENEFICIARIES. 
Board, 40 weeks of the Collegiate year, $1 374 per week, - $55 00 
Tuition, wholly gratuitous. 
Room-rent, - - - - - - - - 10 00 
$65 00 
Incidental expenses for servants’ care of room, and for 
repairs and painting of buildings, per term, $2 00 
Washing per term, . from $2 50 to 5 00 
Fuel and oil, - - ° - - - - tts cost. 
ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 
Board, tuition, and room-rent, for the Academical year, - $125 00 
Incidental expenses for servants’ care of room, and for 
repairs and painting of buildings, - - $2 00 
Washing, per term, from $2 50to » 5 00 
Fuel and oil, - - - rR) Uke - its cost, 
BENEFICIARIES. 
Board, 40 weeks, Academical year, $1 374 - - - 55 00 
Tuition, wholly gratuitous. 
Room-rent, - - - - - - - - - 10 00 
$65 00 
Incidental expenses for servants’ care of room, and for 
repairs and painting of buildings, per term, $2 00 
Washing, per term, from $2 50 to 5 00 
Fuel and oil, —- - - - - - its cost. 
SELECT SCHOOL. 
Whole charge, . - - - - - = $200 


It is desired by the Facunry that students furnish themselves, so far as 
practicable, with a supply of books for each term, during the vacation. By 
recurring to the schedule of the preparatory and collegiate studies, (note, 
pages 28 and 29 of this Appendix,) it will not be difficult, in most in- 
stances, to ascertain what books may be wanted. 

The College Laws explicitly require each student to present to the Se- 
cretary of the Faculty, at the time of his admission, [the time of his enter- 
ing his name, age, residence, &c.,] and at the commencement of every 
subsequent term, a faithful certified copy of all his books, embracing’ both 
classical and miscellaneous, and of the newspapers and periodicals to be 
sent to him during the term. 


N. B.—No arrangements will be made for the reception of students at 
the College premises at the commencement of the ensuing term, sooner 
than Tuesday, the 30th of September, and all will be expected to reach 
the Institution punctually by the day following, (Wednesday, the Ist of Oc- 
tober.) The rooms of the new College edifice are expected to be in readt- 
ness for students. 


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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 


OF 


BRISTOL COLLEGE. 


Rev. GREGORY T. BEDELL, D. D. 
Rev. JAMES MILNOR, D. D. 
Hon. DAVID SCOTT, 

Hon. JOHN FOX, 

Rey. J. P. K. HENSHAW, D. D. 
Hon. DAVID BUEL, Jr. 

Rev. LEVI BULL, 

Hon. SAMUEL D. INGHAM, 
FRANCIS 8S. KEY, Esq. 
THOMAS MITCHELL, Esq. 
Rev. STEPHEN H. TYNG, D. D. 
Rev. JOHN S. STONE, 

Hon. CROMWELL PIERCE, 
Rev. CHAUNCEY COLTON, 
CASPAR MORRIS, M. D. 

Hon. WILLIAM T. ROGERS, 
Rev. JAMES MAY, 

Rev. SAMUEL A. McCOSKRY, 
ISRAEL KINSMAN, Esq. 
JAMES WORTH, Esq. 

Rev. GREENBURY W. RIDGELY, 
CORNELIUS STEVENSON, Esq. 
FREDERICK W. PORTER, Esq. 
LEWIS S. CORYELL, Esq. 
LEWIS R. ASHHURST, Esq. 
THOMAS P. KENNEDY, Esq. 
JACOB LEX, Esq. 

JOHN FARR, Esq. 

JOHN C. PECHIN, Esq. 
LAMBERT DUY, Esq. 

JOHN W. DOWNING, Esq. 
MICHAEL WATSON, Esq. 


TREASURER, 
JACOB LEX, Esq. 


SECRETARY, 
LAMBERT DUY, Esc. 


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FACULTY. 


Rey. CHAUNCEY COLTON, A. M., PresipEnt. 


Rey. CALEB I. GOOD, A. M. 
Professor of the Greek Language, and Literature, and 
Professor of Belle Lettres. 


WILLIAM N. PENDLETON,* 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy,— 
and acting Professor of Chemistry and Natural 

History. 


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Professor of the Hebrew, Latin and German Lan- 
guages, and Literature. 


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Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. 


(RS SE CES SEER 


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Rev. GEORGE W. COLE, A. M. 
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and Librarian. 


Rev. CHESTER NEWELL, A. M., Senior Tutor. 


JAMES C. HULME, A. B., Junior Tutor. 


EDWARD C. THURSTON, Esq., Actuary, and Superintendent of the 
Department of Manual Labour. 


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* Late Assistant Prorrssor of Mathematics at the U. S. Academy, at West Point. 

+ Tus CHair was erected at a recent meeting of the Boarp or ‘TRUSTEES, and a 
gentleman of distinguished philological attainments, who has recently returned from 
a residence of several years in the Universities of Germany, appointed to fill it. 
Sufficient time has not elapsed since this appointment was made, for the Professor- 
elect to have signified his acceptance. 

t The duties of this Chair are temporarily discharged by the PRESIDENT. 


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